Brussels!

(palace)

My first stop on my way to Israel was an 11-hour layover in Brussels on Mon, Aug 10, where I discovered that I’ve completely forgotten French. Coincidentally, the young woman sitting next to me on the plane from NYC to Brussels was Israeli, and had the same layover in Brussels as I did. I convinced her to go exploring with me, and we took the train to the center of the city.

Places we visited: the Palace, H&M (apparently they don’t have it in Israel so Hadas wanted to do some shopping there while she still had the chance), the park near the Palace, the Cathedral (it had an art exhibit inside, too), and the Grand Place (central market square). We’d hoped to visit the famous statue of Le Mannequin Pis (a little boy peeing that they dress up in different outfits for special occasions), but we got distracted by Belgian waffles for lunch instead (yum), and then it was time to get back on the train to the airport.

Hadas and I even had seats next to each other for the flight to Tel Aviv, too!

(cathedral, central market square)